The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-22
MISSISSIPPI PRESS.
DIVERS OPINIONS ON CUR
RENT TOPICS TERSELY
EXPRESSED.
Pith and Point.

Barksdalc would meet with little Or
no opposition from the State press.
should he conclude to become can
didate for Governor.
YAzOo SENTINEL: 4 negro man
brought suit in Holmes county against
the Illinois Central for being elected
from the ladies' car. He sued for
5000. The jury gave him S1OO,which
was 800 too much.
SIGNAL CoPIAHAN If there was no
way to secure the changes needed in
the Constitution but to call a cOnven-
ton, we should certainly favor one,
but as the changes can be secured by
amendments. we shall favor that
mode.
NEW MIssIssIPPIAN: Lamar has
been appointed to the Supreme bench.
1t seems to us il would have been bet
ter for the President to have appoint
ed lawyer, but he made as good a
selection as possible outside of the le-
gal fraternity.
WALTHALL WARDEN: That Cleve-
land and Blaine will be pittcd against
each other in 1888 seems foregone
conclusion. There will probably be
some guerrilla skirmishing on the
TANKS, but the great battle of ballots
will he waged between the armies of
these two great leaders.
TUPELo Journal: 1t strikes us
that C. b. Mitchell, of Pontotoc,
will probably be the best equipped of
any member of the next Legislature
for the position of Speaker If he
should be a candidate he would of
course receive the unanimous support
of the members from this section of
of the State.
PORT GIBSON REvEIILE: May it
not be justly claimed 10y the Changers,
that to them belongs the credit of the
passage of the Interstate Commerce
Bill? Long years ago they put the
ball in motion, in fighting the corpo-
rations upon the very principles that
are incorporated in the Interstate
Commerce Bill.
KosCIUsKO STAR: The Star believes
that the first principle of decent and
independent journalism, is to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. No man, however lowly,
should be wilfully and wantonIy
stricken down; and no man, however
exalted, should escape the just pen
atty of his miSdoings.
LIBERTY HERALD: The farmers
will demand State and National legis
lation for the protection of their eX-
ports as we'll as imports specially af-
fccting the agricultural products of
the country. The programme of the
farmers, is successfully carried ont,
will in the near future make his cOun-
try more prosperous than ever be-
fore.
CHICKAsAw MESSENGER: Unless
we mistake the temper of the Legisla-
turc soon to convene, there will he
fewer, instead OF more offices to fill,
when that body adiourns, and the
munifcent salaries paid those nccessa-
ry to run the various departments of
government will be curtailed to an ex-
tent which will possibly be distressing
to the office holder, but eminently
satisfactory to the taxpayers.
FULTON REPORTER: Many little
farms well titled with many industri-
Gus, sober farmers to till them consti-
tute the highest degree of agricultural
prosperity. The greater number
who own land in any community the
more interest will they take in its i'm
provement. People who rent land as
a rule care nothing for the soil they
work further than what it will yield
them.
NEW MIssIssIPPIAN: There is not,
and there never was in this land any
law expressed or implied which allow
ed lessee or any one else authority
to punish convict with blows, and
yet always since the lease system be-
gan in Mississippi they have been
beaten with the grossest cruelty, of
ten even until death resulted. And
every one who has thus been struck,
has an action at law, both civil and
criminal; against his assailant.
VICKsBURG Posi-: We of Missis
sippi, who are eternally talking about
big questions, great schemes, buy our
farming implements, buckets, broOms,
furniture, meat, matches and COTTON
GOODS, from abroad. We have one big
cotton and wooden mill at Wesson.
We of Mississippi are down on pro-
lection, and glib enough about "trait
or Randall" but ready to strain the
Constitution in behalf of home